Unsung Heroes of the Air: The Incredible True Story of the 345th Bomb Group, The Air Apaches

A. J. Brock: They fought the Japanese when they were still winning. They stopped them in the Southwest Pacific.

United States on Jun 28, 2023

A purchaser: Back in the 70’s, one of my HS teachers was in this squadron. Everyone called him Colonel Moore, something you won’t hear in a school today. Every once in a while he would make a small remark about flying in the war.
I never knew about this book or their exploits until recently.
Much respect.

United States on Apr 29, 2023

Amazon Customer: So far it has been a good read 1/4 into the book. Good detail on battles but I am only 1/4 into the book...

Canada on Nov 09, 2021

Andrew C Downs: It is a history that l have wanted to read about for a long time , l'am 2/3rds through it at the moment , it does NOT disappoint

Australia on Sep 17, 2020

Brettafett: These guys went through hell, and in typical Jay Stout articulation and storytelling, their stories are told and their exploits finally revealed in full. Don't make men like this anymore.

United Kingdom on Jul 20, 2020

tom: This tells the story of a bomb group that was instrumental in the victories in New Guinea and the Philippines. This account tells of their hardships in their bases, the highly modified bomber/gunships they piloted, and their constantly moving forward to meet the enemy in the next location. Having traveled to that part of the world, I am acquainted with what would have been the hardships of heat, rain, mud, mosquitos, and then the war on top of that with the enemy, stretched supply lines, lack of rest, and disease. These men were heroes, and reading their stories is both interesting and worthwhile!

United States on Jul 04, 2019

GDUB57: Pappy Gunn's first crude field mods, the invention of skip bombing, the Battle of the Bismark Sea ... wait a sec ...1/3 of the way through this book i realized that it was the 38th Bombardment Group I was expecting to learn more about, not the 345th. Not a bad book but to get 5 stars from me it would have dispensed with some of the fluff and instead covered BOTH B-25 groups in one book. But then it wouldn't be called 'Air Apaches: The True Story of the 345th ' would it? Ah well, me bad.

United States on Apr 09, 2019

Marc L. Tavasci: Just as he's done with the 303rd Bomb Group (The Hell's Angels) and the 352nd Fighter Group (The Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney), author Jay Stout has once again given us a great book on the men who served in one the premier B-25 units of the Pacific War: the 345th Bomb Group, aka "The Air Apaches".

Arriving in the Pacific Theater in mid-1943, the group originally flew missions out of the Port Moresby area before re-locating across the Owen Stanley Mountains of New Guinea into a succession of air bases closer to their intended targets. As they moved across New Guinea, and eventually further north into the Philippines and Ie Shima, the 345th achieved a spectacular record of success in destroying Japanese military targets on the land, in the air and at sea. Almost always flying at very low altitude, the group was originally known as "The Tree-Top Terrors" before coming up with a name change in 1944. Major Japanese bases such as Rabaul, Wewak and Clark Field were all subjected to the Air Apaches' wrath, and oftentimes they exacted a high toll for these intrusions.

The book isn't a comprehensive account of the group and all their missions (see Lawrence Hickey's book,...

United States on Feb 07, 2019